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First published in 2019 by Polity Press

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Names: Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin, author.
Title: Emotions, media and politics / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2018. | Series: Contemporary political communication | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018025189 (print) | LCCN 2018042704 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509531431 (Epub) | ISBN 9780745661049 | ISBN 9780745661056 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Mass media--Political aspects. | Emotions--Political aspects. | Political psychology.
Classification: LCC P95.8 (ebook) | LCC P95.8 .W35 2018 (print) | DDC 302.2301/9--dc23
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Acknowledgments

It is only suitable that this book on emotions, media and politics is, more than anything, a labor of love; a love that has been sometimes breath-taking and thrilling, at other times fraught with difficulty and challenges. The work that forms the basis for this book has evolved and grown over a number of years and has benefited from the feedback of many colleagues, to whom I remain eternally grateful.

At Cardiff University, I have had the greatest possible institutional environment for such a project, drawing on the wisdom and kindness of stellar scholars including but not limited to Stuart Allan, Lucy Bennett, Mike Berry, Cindy Carter, Simon Cottle, Stephen Cushion, Lina Dencik, Bob Franklin, Inaki Garcia-Blanco, Ross Garner, Janet Harris, Arne Hintz, Jenny Kidd, Jenny Kitzinger, Justin Lewis, Kerry Moore, Caitriona Noonan, Joanna Redden, Richard Sambrook and Andy Williams.

Elsewhere, I have pestered esteemed colleagues with endless talk of this project over the years. Some of those who have had the most to say in return include Chris Anderson, Charlie Beckett, Jen Birks, Bolette Blaagaard, Tammy Boyce, Lilie Chouliaraki, Mark Deuze, Cherian George, Alfred Hermida, Michael Higgins, Risto Kunelius, Nikki Layzer, Mirca Madianou, Donald Matheson, Mervi Pantti, Zizi Papacharissi, Chris Peters, Patrick Lee Plaisance, Verica Rupar, Steen Steensen, Einar Thorsen, Herman Wasserman and Tamara Witschge.

When I started working in this area, I was one of a handful of scholars in the field who thought it might be worth taking emotion in media seriously. I am endlessly pleased to see a new generation of academics focusing their work on related questions, and have been honored to examine a series of excellent PhD projects in the area, including those of Lyn Barnes, Tom Doig, Stephen Jukes, Morgane Kimmich and Jennifer Martin.

I have also been lucky enough to be able to take my project on the road: aside from burdening my Cardiff colleagues with several seminars on various chapters in the book, audiences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the University of Oxford, the University of East Anglia, the University of Leeds, the University of Leicester, the University of Newcastle and the University of Westminster, as well as numerous conferences, seminars and symposia around the world, have all provided useful feedback, friendly advice and general hospitality. Stints as a visiting scholar at Gothenburg University, Monash University, Stockholm University, the University of Copenhagen and Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, have exposed me to new ideas and given me space to think.

I am grateful to the editorial team at Polity Press, including Andrea Drugan, who originally commissioned the book, Ellen MacDonald-Kramer and Mary Savigar, who saw it to completion, and Justin Dyer, who expertly copy-edited the manuscript.

My thoughts have taken shape through a series of publications in the form of articles, book chapters, blog posts and encyclopedia entries. I have been writing about the relationship between emotions, media and politics in some form or another for my entire career. Many of the publications have been referenced throughout the book where relevant; others have helped to shape or sharpen my thinking on the subject. Parts of Chapter 2 represent an updated version of a study first published in Wahl-Jorgensen (2013b). Chapter 4 is based on an updated version of Wahl-Jorgensen (2018c). Chapter 5 draws on work published in Wahl-Jorgensen (2017b, 2018b). Chapter 7 is a shortened, updated and modified version of Wahl-Jorgensen (2018a).

Along with friends in Cardiff and beyond, Jacob Wahl-Byde and Wouter Poortinga have carried the largest burden: that of maintaining my sanity throughout the epic endeavor of writing about emotionality. To them I owe the greatest thanks of all.